In a devastating incident during Eid celebrations, three sons and three grandchildren of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were tragically killed in an Israeli airstrike at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza. The news was confirmed by the Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab, shedding light on the ongoing violence in the...
Russia on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take a Kremlin-performed Covid test. The leaders sat at opposite ends of an unusually long table in the Kremlin on Monday, when Macron...
Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow Saturday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid escalating tensions following a US drone strike that killed an Iranian general, a German government spokesman said. Merkel, who will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, will discuss “the current conflict trouble spots”...
President Bola Tinubu is set to leave Abuja on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, for Dakar, Senegal, where he will attend the inauguration ceremony of Senegal's President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, at the Diamniadio Exhibition Centre. President Tinubu, the current Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, will...
The Home Office is considering fitting asylum seekers arriving in the UK via unauthorised means with electronic tags, it has been reported. The Times said officials are mulling it as a way to prevent migrants who cannot be housed in limited detention sites from absconding. The Illegal Migration Act places a...
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Thursday asked international funding bodies for support in drawing up an emergency rescue plan for his protest-wracked country. Donors including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday rebuffed a plea for financial aid pending the rapid formation of a new government to implement...
Elizabeth Warren, once a frontrunner in the Democratic contest for the White House, is dropping out of the race, US media reported Thursday, following a poor showing in several statewide votes this week. Warren, a 70-year-old progressive senator from Massachusetts, will hold a call with her campaign staff Thursday and...
A new British banknote featuring a self-portrait by the 19th-century painter J.M.W. Turner entered circulation on Thursday. The 20-pound note is the third to be made of durable polymer material rather than paper, following the launch of new five-pound and 10-pound notes in 2016 and 2017. “Moving the 20-pound note to...
French unions were, on Tuesday, gearing up for a show of force as strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plans went into a sixth day running. The hardline unions have called for the second day of mass protests as Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was due to outline the government’s...
Xi Jinping was on Friday unanimously re-elected Chinese President. Xi Jinping was also elected Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China on the platform of the ruling Communist Party of China. The re-election was an outcome of the ongoing session of the 14th National People’s Congress. The event marked the third...